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Philosophy: The Big Questions Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Ruth J. Sample (Editor); Charles W. Mills (Editor); James P. Sterba (Editor)


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Philosophy: The Big Questions occupies a unique position among introductory texts in philosophy. Designed for a single-semester introductory course in philosophy, it includes both classic readings in philosophy and newer articles.


  • Presents, in one volume, canonical and contemporary works in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and epistemology.
  • Topics discussed include knowledge, religion, freedom, morality, and the meaning of life.
  • Serves as a comprehensive and compelling introduction to philosophy.
  • Together with traditional readings it also presents non-traditional, feminist eadings from a continental perspectives.

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We have all had the experience of thinking that we knew something, and later discovering - perhaps to our shock - that what we thought we knew was actually false, so that though we believed it, we didn't actually know it after all.

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Philosophy: The Big Questionsoccupies a unique position among introductory texts in philosophy. Designed for a single-semester introductory course in philosophy, it includes both classic readings in philosophy and newer articles. The text is organized around central problems in philosophy and the diverse approaches that philosophers have taken toward those problems.

Readers of this innovative and accessible volume will encounter canonical works in the history of philosophy, and at the same time see the relevance of philosophy to topics they have encountered in their everyday lives.

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  • Title Philosophy: The Big Questions
  • Author Ruth J. Sample (Editor); Charles W. Mills (Editor); James P. Sterba (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 548
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Date 2004-02-13
  • ISBN 9781405108287 / 1405108282
  • Weight 2.37 lbs (1.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.94 x 6.92 x 1.33 in (25.25 x 17.58 x 3.38 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003011348
  • Dewey Decimal Code 100

About the author

Ruth J. Sample is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. She teaches social and political philosophy, early modern philosophy, and feminist philosophy, and is the author of Exploitation: What It Is and Why It's Wrong (2003).


Charles W. Mills is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He works in the area of oppositional political theory and is the author of three books: The Racial Contract (1997), Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998), and From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003).

James P. Sterba is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he teaches ethics and political philosophy. His publications include How to Make People Just (1988), Feminist Philosophies (2nd edn., 1995), Justice for Here and Now (1998), Earth Ethics (2nd edn., 2000), Three Challenges to Ethics (2001), and Morality in Practice (7th edn., 2003).

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